While having coffee with a friend, he expressed disbelief that Gov. Andrew Cuomo boasted that "Rochester never looked so good" during his visit last week.

I reminded my friend that there are two Rochesters. The governor was referring to the one that's starting to bounce back from the Great Recession. It's the one where the outlook is promising, due in part to significant state investments like the $135 million Cuomo announced for a new computer chip facility in Greece.

As for the "other Rochester," it's still one of the poorest cities in the nation and suffers from all of the attendant maladies such as high rates of joblessness and low student achievement.

It's because this situation persists that we were compelled to remind the governor of our Unite Rochester campaign during the Editorial Board's meeting with him last week. (I even gave the governor a copy of our recent six-page Progress Report). It's critical that leaders of considerable influence like Cuomo address issues plaguing the "other Rochester." Fortunately, many of them locally are already doing so. There is no better time than now, amid the reshaping of the Rochester economy.

The 500 new high-tech jobs averaging $90,000 a year are certainly welcome in this region. But let's not forget those who won't be qualified for those high-skilled jobs. There also must be a simultaneous push to prepare low-skill and no-skill workers to reap benefits of Rochester's remake.

Cuomo listened intently as these arguments, which included discussion of the need for affordable housing that helps to break up high concentration of poverty in the city, were made. The governor promised he'd return soon and he'd have much more to say.